Pound Puppies and Purries - 1980s (Tonka)

[Em]

@WordFuzion
Hahah!  Aww how sweet.  I think Pound Puppies are quite cute.  I had a few but not many.

[unrelated]

I admit I sleep with one in particular.  My boyfriend got me a Build-A-Bear Hello Kitty for Christmas two years ago.  I'll probably have her for forever, I love her!!!

My other favorite plush is a "Snuggle Buddies" bunny from R.G. Barry Corp.  I think they make shoes now.  o.o;;  She has a zipper pouch in her back and I keep childhood goodies in there.  [^.^]

-Em

[WordFuzion]

@Em  That's so sweet! The toys that meant the most to me...and got saved from going to charity when I was in that silly "too old for toys" stage...were all ones given to me by special people or from special occasions. Your boyfriend sounds awesome, btw. I'm a plushie over flowers girl myself.

[Em]

Thank you!  He's very awesome.  We totally support each other's different hobbies and likings.  ^^  I luff him.  <3

So you mean they did or didn't get saved?!  Most of my favorites got sold by myself in yard sales.  I chose the toys I "played with less at the time" to get a few dollars.  I endured a lot of self hatred for that, LOL.  And I love the way you worded that! 

-Em

[zuse]

You guys are cute.

So, is there any list anywhere of all the Pound Puppies stuff by Tonka? I know it had the cartoon and lots of licensed merchandise so it might be pointless, haha. Also, with all the Hardee's ones flooding the market it's hard to sift through all the eBay lots.

[WordFuzion]

@Em... my big Pound Puppies were amoung the saved. I picked out the ones that meant the most to me and the rest went to a local charity run by my father's friend's wife that provides toys, clothes, etc. for migrant workers. So at least I know the ones that I did give up got a chance to be really loved.

And now whenever I see something I had that I gave up, I just make a little note. I just might add a section like that to my Flickr account. Someday we'll be reunited! Right now I can just do a little rebuying here and there, but I'm working on my first novel and if I get it published I will celebrate with one heck of a buying spree!

[Eilonwe]

My Howler just arrived today!





He probably had a hat originally.

I love the jointed cartoon character plushies. I need to find more.

[zuse]

1987 JCPenney's Christmas Catalog







(from Wishbook's flickr)
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/wishbook/sets/72157623800858939/

[ianthe99]

Ooh! I just found one of those Pound purrries furries today! She still has her ribbon too!

[Mer_Kitty]

My Pound Puppies:

http://s779.photobucket.com/albums/yy76/Mer_Kitty/Pound%20Puppies/

[pranceatron]

I had these as a kid in Canada, and I don't know why, but I never see the "cloth" type ones for sale or in photos, just the velour ones, they maybe were only in Canada?  I'll post a few pics of them later today.  The yuppies were the first things we got in the velour material, then after that pretty much all of them were soft.   I'm relatively certain the "cloth" ones were the first ones out, I think 1984.  They were kind of the same material as Cabbage Patch Kids, I think their angle was to have the OOAK thing going on, but as dogs, not kids.

Not sure if I can hotlink so I'll just give a URL to my pound puppy gallery:

http://picasaweb.google.ca/Pranceatron/PoundPuppies#

The first run puppies came with an order form for a brass nametag, there's a picture of it there.  It looked very unofficial and homemade, I remember not being too impressed with it, so I put some letter stickers over it.
Also I have the colour insert from the rumpleskins Puppy I got in there too, with Super Pound Puppy!
The clothing was all sewn by me as a child, these toys were VERY well loved!

[invaderhorizongreen]

i do not know if tonka made it but there was a plush of cooler that you could put tapes in it and listen to it. i think it ran on 3-4 c or d cell batteries i think it was a 1980's plush?

[garagesailor]

My Pound Puppies:

http://s779.photobucket.com/albums/yy76/Mer_Kitty/Pound%20Puppies/

Mer_Kitty.... I have a Pound Puppy I was trying to find more info on because I had never seen one like it before, then I saw him in your picture! He is in the first picture, toward the upper left. He is medium-size, and in a sitting position, as opposed to the standard laying down position. Gray body, blue eyes. Do you know anything about this guy?

thanks!

[MercurialMonster]

I will need to dig up my Pound Puppies and Purries.   I think my original Puppy (as well as my sister's) is long gone, but I still have both our Pound Purries, both of our Pound Puppy Furries newborns, my Pound Purry newborn, and I possibly still have my Pound Puppy newborn.

I also found some pictures of me and my sister on the ferry from Kodiak to the mainland, and we have our Pound Puppies with us.   The picture of me it is kind of hard to see, since my puppy was black, and the lighting on the ferry was really bad.  But I will try and post them when I can.